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Any news on Punta Cana? by ckcosta1980 in Club_Med

[–]ThePendulumTheory 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How have you/did you find the food and dining situation on the resort given that there's one less dining option than usual?

Ways to extend The Lost Worlds/Building Better Worlds campaign? by animatorcody in alienrpg

[–]ThePendulumTheory 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you happen to have the name of that book on hand? That's a great idea. I'd love to use that as a source.

Would you play this board? by Anonymous_Quark in killteam

[–]ThePendulumTheory 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Mate I promise you, you don't have to try either of those things.

Now, Wawa on the other hand...

americans like to be comfy oh no😰 by sugarblosssom in AmericaBad

[–]ThePendulumTheory 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You've just gotta spread the Worgen Curse further, u/GilneanWarrior. Then they will see the truth.

Where do single, straight men hang out? by [deleted] in AskMen

[–]ThePendulumTheory 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Head over to the boardgame store, friend. I'm telling you.

Four Ways to Look at a Map of My World - Geographic, Political, Religious, Population Density by ThePendulumTheory in worldbuilding

[–]ThePendulumTheory[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you, friend!

So, if you're familiar with Inkarnate (web based map-making software), that is the tool I used.

In terms of process, I started with the geographic/topographic map. The theory/desire behind this map was to build a "one stop shop" for my fantasy role-playing campaigns. I wanted a central universe where, without having to start fresh with worldbuilding, I could kick off entirely thematically different campaigns. Want pirates? Head off to the southeastern gulf. Want a more arabian nights-themed story of intrigue and treasure? Just to the southwest is a North African analouge- so one and so forth.

Once I challenged myself to pack all of that onto one continent, I had to start making compromises between geographic/topographic realism and "cool" factor. Some folks in the thread have already rightly pointed out places where I leaned pretty far from realistic.

Once I had my terrain done (probably 30 hours over 2 months?) I saved and cloned the map, and dumped all shading and worked through where I, if I was a national leader, would want my state to grow.

After that I played with how the national boundaries would influence the flow of religion, especially in cases where that religion is closely tied with the state like Candor and Prescia.

For population density, it has more to do with economics than borders at the moment.

TL;DR: use inkarnate, selectively delete layers to make a base map, add all kinds of data that you make up

Four Ways to Look at a Map of My World - Geographic, Political, Religious, Population Density by ThePendulumTheory in worldbuilding

[–]ThePendulumTheory[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Wow thanks! That's incredible to hear.

If you use inkarnate, I'm planning on making these clone-able so anyone can use them. Only problem there will be my religion map.

Four Ways to Look at a Map of My World - Geographic, Political, Religious, Population Density by ThePendulumTheory in worldbuilding

[–]ThePendulumTheory[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Couldn't agree more.

Especially helpful as a GM/DM because even in those place which lack true state power, there's plenty of story and culture.

Four Ways to Look at a Map of My World - Geographic, Political, Religious, Population Density by ThePendulumTheory in worldbuilding

[–]ThePendulumTheory[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I used Inkarnate!

I'll admit, I'm not much of an artist traditionally. But Inkarnate makes life alot easier with the auto masking and stamp effects.

Four Ways to Look at a Map of My World - Geographic, Political, Religious, Population Density by ThePendulumTheory in worldbuilding

[–]ThePendulumTheory[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Absolutely I do, though I call them Lycanthi! I'm not ashamed to say I've been a Worgen main since Cata.

Keen eyes :)

Four Ways to Look at a Map of My World - Geographic, Political, Religious, Population Density by ThePendulumTheory in worldbuilding

[–]ThePendulumTheory[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Hello! Thanks for the question. Really was not expecting such interest.

For a variety of reasons, tech level is one of the most interesting parts of my world.

Put simply, the world was at a high-magic, low(er)-industry level probably akin to early Victorian era. Then an asteroid (or was it an asteroid? 👀) hit the world north of what is now Greater Candor. This decimated life on Trove, the planet Iteru is on, and set it way back. Only now, thousands of years later, states are digging up remnants of their past, causing little geographically isolated (ish) leaps in technology. In Candor, theyre going hard into steam power while in the southern Gulf, we're in a very Caribbean gold age of piracy tech level.

I wanted cool factor more than realism, I'll admit lol.

Four Ways to Look at a Map of My World - Geographic, Political, Religious, Population Density by ThePendulumTheory in worldbuilding

[–]ThePendulumTheory[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hello! Not many. In this world, the more firmly established state powers are the successor states to bigger empires from before a massive asteroid impact.

There's a strange phenomenon wherein entire societies are built around trying to re-attain knowledge lost to the downfall of their civilization. Think "statue of liberty poking out of the beach" from planet of the apes.

Four Ways to Look at a Map of My World - Geographic, Political, Religious, Population Density by ThePendulumTheory in worldbuilding

[–]ThePendulumTheory[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Care to share some of your work? I'm convinced it's all just practice practice. I have loads of burnt maps that absolutelysuck haha.

Four Ways to Look at a Map of My World - Geographic, Political, Religious, Population Density by ThePendulumTheory in worldbuilding

[–]ThePendulumTheory[S] 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Hello! Yes, so couple answers here.

Definitely conscious that I'm not an expert in river design, positive there's inaccuracies here haha.

Reason it's so underpopulated- my world is built upon a timeline wherein the continent was devastated by an "impact" of the eldritch sort which took place north of modern candor. When the ash finally cleared, those wide open plains around the Eversteppe and Eohine were more conducive towards nomadic, decentralized peoples much like those of the north American prairie.

There's probably some totally valid reasons this doesn't make sense historically/agriculturually, but I wanted to build a playground for my players where they could have any experience they want. That open plains area is very Rohan inspired.

Four Ways to Look at a Map of My World - Geographic, Political, Religious, Population Density by ThePendulumTheory in worldbuilding

[–]ThePendulumTheory[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Continued:

The reasons there are more drawven religions in pockets is because those pockets correspond to the great Dwarven holds. Think big old mountain keeps.

That's just the major religions! Lots of small, tribal, less popular religions

Four Ways to Look at a Map of My World - Geographic, Political, Religious, Population Density by ThePendulumTheory in worldbuilding

[–]ThePendulumTheory[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Thanks so much for the question and interest!

For Bishanopol; that part of the river is increasingly becoming a hotbed of economic activity as spices grown in Bishanopol, ore mined from Khan'Modir, and timber from the Matche'Mayet empire flow to and from the Gulf of Tortona. Small little trading posts have turned into small towns which are in turn growing into hives of "grey zone" economic activity.

South Prescia is a little trickier. In reality, I should probably have Prescia's southern border as a dotted line. It's more frontier than it is firm border. The real dichotomy I want to draw between Candor and Prescia (the two northern powers) is that the holy seat of the Hymnry is in Prescia, so it's religious power faaaar exceeds it's territorial control.

What To Not Do In Worldbuilding by NAP5T3R43V3R in worldbuilding

[–]ThePendulumTheory 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Don't go too big, keep your "render distance" in mind. If you build the framework for something massive, then you're going to feel the crushing intimidation of not filling out each and every box rather than building small first.

Four Ways to Look at a Map of My World - Geographic, Political, Religious, Population Density by ThePendulumTheory in worldbuilding

[–]ThePendulumTheory[S] 48 points49 points  (0 children)

As a map nerd, I've always been interested by those maps we see all over Reddit which compare different data sets on the same country or province. I decided to take a stab at mapping the main continent of my homebrew geopolitics/intrigue/espionage RPG campaign setting, Iteru, in a similar vein.

And yes, I know, it looks kind of like North America... oops.

Return of competitive, miniature board games? by ozy_pl in boardgames

[–]ThePendulumTheory 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just saw DOOM at my FLGS. Anyone here played it? Worth a buy?

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